Conway News

The rope on the flagpole at Federal Street School in Greenfield was rotten. It didn't really matter, because there has not been a flag there to be raised for quite some time.

They're walking to find a cure. 22News has been keeping an eye on Hampshire County's Relay for Life.

What you see is what you get. That's about the status of anadromous-fish passage here in the Happy Valley.

Local public school officials have many concerns about brewing legislation that would allow state bureaucrats to restructure school districts.

Franklin County Technical School's electrical students install the first of nine panels for a 2 kilowatt photovoltaic array that will track the sun, offset power requirements for the school's greenhouse, and provide a stream of data for students to study in the school's solar training program throughout each year.

Arlene E. Rodovich, 74, of Conway and Kissimmee, Fla., died Tuesday at a hospital in Kissimmee.

After month of studying options for regionalizing Frontier and Union 38 school districts, it's still not clear that combining the South County schools into a K-12 district, while maintaining level or near-level services to students, will produce any savings, administrators say.

The controversial Quinn Bill, which provides police officers with a salary incentive to further their education, was gutted by House lawmakers Friday night in a move to save money.

You wouldn't think any good would come out of western Massachusetts terrible ice storm last December.

Last week, Gen. James T. Conway paid homage to Tommy Lyons, the same kid who once tossed mean curveballs at me from a slew of dusty pitcher's mounds in Southie.

At first, it was just a discussion among friends in Conway, ''marveling about the great things going on in town that many townspeople don't know about.'' Then the women called themselves Conway Contexts and invited all Conway residents to participate in a townwide picnic-fair-market on this coming Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. It will be in the ...

Does it get any better than this? The trout trucks are rolling, the turkeys gobbling, the forsythias and magnolias blossoming.

The story of Anne Frank has taken on the aura of legend: A little sprite of a Jewish girl, hiding in cramped conditions from her Nazi persecutors, pours her heart into her diary.

With the help of federal stimulus money, the Frontier Regional School member towns of Deerfield, Conway, Sunderland and Whately could collectively be paying $95,000 less in town assessments for the next school budget than they are this year.

Like most communities, Billerica's School Department is facing the consequences of a bad economy.

By ALEX PESHKOV apeshkov@repub.com WEST SPRINGFIELD - Economic crisis or no economic crisis, the Original Western Massachusetts Home and Garden Show is still the perfect place for homeowners and gardeners to wander and find something that might spark their imagination while going relatively easy on the wallet, organizers said.

An undisturbed snowplow ridge told the story: It had been months since a four-wheeled vehicle had driven the aboriginal trail that became a Colonial path, then a well-used thoroughfare from Williamsburg to Conway until discontinued around 1950.

Just a day after the governor announced money for several Franklin County schools for their budgets next year, he said on Friday more money is on its way to help the county's schools cover special education costs.

Are you someone who might be interested in caddis flies, diving beetles, midges, frogs or salamanders? If you don't mind getting wet to hunt for these creatures, the Deerfield River Watershed Association might ...

Eight men picked up a hemlock beam weighing about 200 pounds, shuffled a few steps, hefted it above their heads.